Former Trump aide Omarosa said she thinks he's 'going through a psychotic episode' over his election loss

• In an interview with MSNBC's Alex Witt on Saturday, Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former aide to President Donald Trump, said she thought he was "going through a psychotic episode" over his election loss.
• "I think that he has come to terms with his loss, but his arrogance, his ego, will not allow him to accept that he is not going to be president come January," she said.
• She also said she "feels bad" for anyone left in the Trump administration because he's "going to turn to anyone and blame everyone for his loss except for himself."

Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former communications director of the White House's Office of Public Liaison, said in an interview with MSNBC's Alex Witt on Saturday that she thought President Donald Trump was "going through a psychotic episode" over his election loss.

Since losing to Joe Biden, Trump has regularly made false claims about election fraud and sought to overturn the results through lawsuits that have gone nowhere. Election officials have found no evidence of widespread voter fraud.

Witt asked Manigault Newman, who is widely known simply as Omarosa, whether she thought Trump really believed he won.

"I think Donald Trump is going through a psychotic episode," she said. "I think that he has come to terms with his loss, but his arrogance, his ego, will not allow him to accept that he is not going to be president come January."

Manigault Newman, who was also a contestant on Trump's reality-TV series "The Apprentice," added that his actions since the election reminded her of the show because he was "trying to produce a moment" to change the results.

"But this is not 'The Apprentice.' This is not a reality show," she said. "The American people need true leadership, not a reality-TV host, which Donald Trump is reverting to."

Manigault Newman spent a year in Trump's White House, from 2017 to 2018, and wrote a book about her experience called "Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House," which was published in 2018.

She has been an outspoken critic of Trump since leaving the White House. In an interview with The Hill after the release of her book, she called him a "racist" who is "trying to undermine our democracy."

In her interview with MSNBC's Witt, Manigault Newman said she "feels bad" for anyone left in the Trump administration because he's "going to turn to anyone and blame everyone for his loss except for himself."

"Certainly Vice President Pence is going to be on the receiving end of Donald Trump's wrath, and it's erratic, it's intense, and at many times it makes absolutely no sense," she said.